The number is stated to be an increase from the total created in 2013. The report further notes that 555,782,547 posts were made on WordPress blogs.

Automattic’s Michelle W. is quoted as stating of statistics regarding the efforts of the company’s team in 2014, “Behind everything Automattic does are 301 Automatticians: 66 Happiness Engineers responded to your requests for assistance 365,212 times.

“Every one of our 134 developers worked on the improvements and enhancements we’ve been rolling out over the past few weeks; 9 systems engineers kept everyone’s sites running fast and secure; 8 editors shepherded over 22,000 of you through Blogging U. courses; 24 themers made 96 stunning new layouts and dozens of customization improvements available.”